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How to block Bluesky from Mastodon:

1. Go to the profile page of the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
2. Click ⋯
3. Click "Block Domain" to stop seeing Bluesky accounts
4. Click "Block" to prevent your own account being bridged to Bluesky

You may need to copy-paste @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy into the search box on your server to make the profile appear.

If you can't find the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy, your server is probably already blocking the Bluesky bridge.

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ZenHeathen

It was sixteen hours ago, so I can't find the posts. But I remembered the name and went looking, and found the user whose posts had me thinking about this. I was about to paste it here when I saw it was a mastodon.online account. I'm certain the boosts I saw were from a bluesky-bridged account from the same user. Could that have something to do with it? Same post origin point also has a Masto account which is not blocked?
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@ZenHeathen

If it's a post from a Mastodon account, it wouldn't be affected by blocking the bridge.

Perhaps you previously saw the same user's Bluesky account bridged, but they have an identical unbridged account on here?

Not everyone uses bridges to post on multiple platforms. Some people use social management services like Buffer etc to post the same content on many different platforms. These aren't bridges, they're just automating the process of posting separately on separate platforms.

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Alex Chapman

@patricus Only problem with that is if there are people who aren't offiliated with US government bullshit that use Atproto platforms like Leaflet, but they wanna use BridgyFed to make their content show up for those on the fediverse, you'd be missing out because they might use brid.gy. This is the sort of problem when blocking entire instances based on things like being part of Atproto, just because the head of Bluesky is openly welcoming some fucked up shit like ICE that doesn't mean we should start cutting the entire Atproto circle off.
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Alex Chapman

@patricus No, they agree with some idiots who wanna run the US into the shitter. The protocol itself isn't run by nazis, its just that Bluesky, the specific instance, bsky.social, is letting a bunch of idiots like ICE run their shit on there. People can block those specific people, but blocking an entire service that federates Atproto with the Fediverse is a bad idea, because there are good people on Atproto and you're basically saying fuck you to them because they use a different protocol.
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Alex Chapman

@patricus But they probably don't understand the whole situation, so you're basically telling the innocent to go fuck themselves for not understanding the whole situation. And the people who are promoting these controversial people are not Nazis, Nazis are the people who were part of the Nazi party during the war back when Adolf Hitler was in power in Germany. That's what Nazis are, so you're throwing the word Nazi around without fully understanding it.
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André Polykanine

@patricus @alexchapman It's a very narrow type of thinking. And also it actually has dictatorship smell to it: "that platform is bad, move here! Now!!" — different people can have different reasons to be here or there, starting from comfortable apps and close friends on a platform and ending with simple habit. My first and foremost reason to stop using Twitter was that third-party apps stopped working, that's it. And I still miss many people from there. If musk is a dickhead, it doesn't mean millions and millions of other people using the platform are.
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Alex Chapman

@menelion @patricus Exactly, like this whole sentiment from a lot of the big names in the Fediverse saying oh these people who are the CEO of this platform or this protocol promoted this person or that, its just ridiculous at this point, saying that just because certain people are doing stupid stuff we should abandon the platforms and/or protocols is only making the situation worse, we should be about people, not platforms and protocols, this needs to stop or the fediverse will continue to look like a bunch of randos who try to push specific ideologies on to its users. This is one of the reasons why the fediverse hasn't been taken seriously in the mainstream.
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André Polykanine

@alexchapman Exactly. I like the openness of the Fediverse, its huge possibilities, decentralization and so forth, but it seems to become more and more a place exclusively for leftists, anarchists, anti-capitalists, exclusive-open-sourcists and other -ists with whom I absolutely don't share my political views. And if you don't agree, you are basically a fascist/nazi/something other random insult word pronounced just to offend, without really knowing dictionary definition, all the connotations and historical presumptions of the word in question. For example, you use windows and don't want to go Linux? You're anti-European fascist, no matter what (you have no right to like Windows, you have no right to be blind and need accessibility Linux doesn't provide and will never provide in foreseeable future — rights are only for the left wing). You don't want that 100% of restaurants in your country were halal because you like your traditional pork meal with a glass of wine — shut up you islamophobic racist, you don't embrace diversity. You don't yell "free palestine" because you don't support hamas and don't want Israel to be abolished and ruined by terrorists — help, a nazi is here, ban him! And so on and so forth and so fifth.
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